2024 Writing Log, Part 41
Oct. 26th, 2024 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I edited Chapter 14 and Chapter 15 of An Unfound Door, thus making it past the halfway point of the novel. Huzzah!
- I posted a short illustrated essay about Chapter 11 on my public-facing blog (here).
- Echoes of Wisdom is growing on me, and I commissioned the ever-amazing Frankiesbugs to draw a comic celebrating how Zelda takes Ganondorf’s necromancy and makes it look cool. I suppose Zelda is technically creating “echoes” instead of resurrecting her defeated foes, but the way she fights in this game still reminds me of the Tears of the Kingdom trailer where Ganondorf triggers the Blood Moon, summons a bunch of monsters, and tells them to “sweep over Hyrule.” It’s a good gig if you can get it. The comic Frankiesbugs created is adorable, and you can check it out on Tumblr (here).
- I finally resumed a Tears of the Kingdom story I began writing over the summer in which Ganondorf attempts to use his uncanny manifestation of Zelda to seduce Link. This isn’t a sexy story, or even a horror story. Rather, it’s metafiction about how something like 90% of players never bother to finish the game.
- I wrote short reviews for three minicomics available in the ShortBox Comics Fair for Women Write About Comics. Two are sweet and wholesome all-ages adventures, while the third is a dark fantasy about strange teenagers running around gothic architecture. I’ll link to the post when it’s live; but, if you’re curious, the three comics are Beetle, Goodbye Apple Island, and Aglæca.
- For the October comics recommendation post on WWAC (here), I wrote a bit about Noss & Zakuro, a gentle Halloween-themed comedy manga for children drawn by an unapologetic pervert who posts spicy Nintendo art on Tumblr.
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is about Rin Usami’s Idol, Burning, a literary novella that follows a high school girl’s search to find a sense of community in online fandom as she struggles with the Japanese education system’s failure to accommodate disability.
- I finished the Hollow Knight illustration I was working on last week and posted it (here) on Tumblr. I had a lot of fun with this!
I’ve spent the past month dodging a constant barrage of political ads like a ninja, and this week is no exception. This sort of thing used to upset me, but now I disrespectfully refuse to see it. Good luck to all of us in the coming days.
In other news, Evie the Pomeranian puppy is starting to grow her adult fur. She’s not a perfectly round ball of fuzz yet, but she’s getting there.
Every morning I write a short list of things that 100% have to be done on an index card. When I’m finished with everything on the list, I give the index card to Evie, who promptly destroys it. This is extremely satisfying to watch.
- I posted a short illustrated essay about Chapter 11 on my public-facing blog (here).
- Echoes of Wisdom is growing on me, and I commissioned the ever-amazing Frankiesbugs to draw a comic celebrating how Zelda takes Ganondorf’s necromancy and makes it look cool. I suppose Zelda is technically creating “echoes” instead of resurrecting her defeated foes, but the way she fights in this game still reminds me of the Tears of the Kingdom trailer where Ganondorf triggers the Blood Moon, summons a bunch of monsters, and tells them to “sweep over Hyrule.” It’s a good gig if you can get it. The comic Frankiesbugs created is adorable, and you can check it out on Tumblr (here).
- I finally resumed a Tears of the Kingdom story I began writing over the summer in which Ganondorf attempts to use his uncanny manifestation of Zelda to seduce Link. This isn’t a sexy story, or even a horror story. Rather, it’s metafiction about how something like 90% of players never bother to finish the game.
- I wrote short reviews for three minicomics available in the ShortBox Comics Fair for Women Write About Comics. Two are sweet and wholesome all-ages adventures, while the third is a dark fantasy about strange teenagers running around gothic architecture. I’ll link to the post when it’s live; but, if you’re curious, the three comics are Beetle, Goodbye Apple Island, and Aglæca.
- For the October comics recommendation post on WWAC (here), I wrote a bit about Noss & Zakuro, a gentle Halloween-themed comedy manga for children drawn by an unapologetic pervert who posts spicy Nintendo art on Tumblr.
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is about Rin Usami’s Idol, Burning, a literary novella that follows a high school girl’s search to find a sense of community in online fandom as she struggles with the Japanese education system’s failure to accommodate disability.
- I finished the Hollow Knight illustration I was working on last week and posted it (here) on Tumblr. I had a lot of fun with this!
I’ve spent the past month dodging a constant barrage of political ads like a ninja, and this week is no exception. This sort of thing used to upset me, but now I disrespectfully refuse to see it. Good luck to all of us in the coming days.
In other news, Evie the Pomeranian puppy is starting to grow her adult fur. She’s not a perfectly round ball of fuzz yet, but she’s getting there.
Every morning I write a short list of things that 100% have to be done on an index card. When I’m finished with everything on the list, I give the index card to Evie, who promptly destroys it. This is extremely satisfying to watch.
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Date: 2024-10-29 11:58 am (UTC)The seduction-as-metafiction TotK fic sounds really interesting. Would you be willing to share more details, by any chance? Completely understandable if you still want to keep it private while it's in its infancy, though. Words aren't wording, lol, hope I'm not coming across as awkward or prying.
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Date: 2024-10-31 01:31 pm (UTC)It's really nothing more than a simple 1.8k-word story in which Link is chilling out at his villa overlooking Lake Akkala and watching the Blood Moon rise while thinking about all the fun things he wants to do in the world. Ganon materializes as Puppet Zelda and makes the astute observation that "Main Quest: Find Princess Zelda" seems to be fairly low on Link's list of priorities.
I realized that a lot of the trouble I have with Ganlink is that Link always feels way too young, so I'm writing him as older and jaded in this story and really enjoying myself. It's mostly finished; I just need to figure out how touchy-feely Ganon is going to get toward the end. Just a little to add spice, probably.